Farmhouse Rolls

Ingredients

• boiling water
  3/4 cup
• vegetable shortening
  1/3 cup
• egg

  beaten
  1 large
• granulated sugar
  1/4 cup
• salt
  1/2 tsp
• unbleached all-purpose flour

  or more as needed
  1 1/2 cups
• rapid-rise yeast
  1 1/4 tsp
• whole wheat flour
  1 cup
• Tbs. unsalted butter

  melted
  2 unit